Colorado flooding punishes immigrants

Sonia Marquez, an organizer with the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, looks for keepsakes earlier this week amid the muck inside one of the many homes now declared uninhabitable due to permanent flood damage at a decimated trailer park in Evans, Colo. The majority of the residents in the trailer park are immigrants who didn't have flood insurance, and because some are not citizens or legal residents, they can't get government help.

Published September 28. 2013 12:01AM

Sonia Marquez, an organizer with the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, looks for keepsakes earlier this week amid the muck inside one of the many homes now declared uninhabitable due to permanent flood damage at a decimated trailer park in Evans, Colo. The majority of the residents in the trailer park are immigrants who didn't have flood insurance, and because some are not citizens or legal residents, they can't get government help.